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Tali Kuper ( Hebrew: טלי קופר ; Ukrainian: Талі Купер; born 28 December 1993) is an Israeli-Ukrainian model and YouTube personality. She was the winner of the first season of The Voice Ukraine in 2003 at age 9 and at age 16 was crowned Miss Israel 2010. She spent 2 years studying chemistry, maths and physics before starting her YouTube channel which has gained over 19 million subscribers (July 2017). In 2018, Kuper on Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Early Life

Tali Kuper was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She moved to Ukraine at age 2 and moved back to Israel at age 8. She was then raised in Akko, Israel for the rest of her childhood. In Hebrew, her name means “Dew from Heaven”. Her parents are Alyonka Kuper (née Romanyszynova), a homicide detective, and Avraham Kuper, a forensic scientist. Her mother is a third generation Ukrainian-Jew and her father is a 7th generation Israeli. Kuper stated she was brought up in a “very Jewish, Israeli family environment. Her ancestry is Ukrainian-Jewish, Russian-Jewish, German-Jewish and Czech-Jewish. She has an older sister, Emily, two older brothers, Shon and Abba, three younger sisters, Aliza, Yarona and Tzofia and a younger brother, Jeremy. Her older brother, Abba, was named after her parents favourite band.